Texas Law is home to world-class faculty, and reports continue to prove that to be true. Many in the legal academy pay careful attention to University of Chicago Prof. Brian Leiter’s annual lists of “most-cited” law faculty on his website, Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports. Leiter (a former Texas Law professor) has developed a methodology based on data from Professor Gregory Sisk & colleagues’ scholarly impact ratings, looking at mean and median citations to tenured faculty scholarship for the years 2016-2020.
As an institution, Texas Law was on the website’s top law schools based on scholarly impact, along with the school’s “most-cited” faculty based on Leiter’s methodology. The professors listed (alphabetically) as the top most-cited are:
- Robert Bone
- Robert Chesney
- William Forbath
- John Golden
- Sanford Levinson
- Thomas McGarity
- Lawrence Sager
- David Spence
- Stephen Vladeck
- Wendy Wagner
The Texas Law most-cited scholars by specialty (to date) are well represented on Leiter’s lists:
- Linda Mullenix (Civil Procedure)
- Sanford Levinson (Constitutional Law)
- John Golden (Intellectual Property)
- Robert Bone (Works partly in Intellectual Property)
- Robert Chesney (International Law and Security)
- Stephen Vladeck (Works partly in International Law and Security)
- William Forbath (Legal History)
- Thomas McGarity (Public Law)
Read more in this Sept. 28 post: Links to all the 2021 Scholarly Impact ranking posts *so far* (for citations during 2016-2020)